Mariah - The Queen of Billboard

Before we dig a bit deeper in the chart accomplishments of Mariah on the Billboard magazine, on this site, I wanted to take the time and opportunity to actually reflect on the reason, why sites
like this are being run up until this day by dedicated fans all around the world, in short: why Mariah Carey is - and more than she has been - should be remembered as an outstanding
artist and contributor to contemporary music history.

More so than through her superb chart and sales stats, it is the artist in her that was the indisputable fundament for all of the commercial success to even be possibly accomplished. It is
without doubt that Mariah Carey has inspired legions of aspiring singers on both an technical level by defining, what a human voice can do, and on an artistic level by perfecting the idea of a
well-gifted singer-songwriter, that would be able to provide him- or herself with song material that would prevail due to its manieristic lyricism and profound melodies.

Unfortunately, the artistic value of the franchise "Mariah Carey" has not in the slightest been as much recognized as her amazing charts and sales stats, which is a shame. But still, we want to
remind ourselves of the handful and so well-deserved moments, when THE ARTIST "Mariah Carey" and not so much her "franchise" has been recognized in the music industry as one of its leading
creative forces....

as early as on her debut album, Mariah was a prolific songwriter, having written the entire album as a co-writer

she also earned her first producer credit on the debut album, having produced the track "Vanishing" all on her own

as early as on her sophomore album "Emotions", Mariah was finally allowed to expand her producing craft as she would from there on co-produce every of her albums and even owning solo
producing credits occasionally (c.p. the tracks "Melt Away" or "Silent Night")

thus, Mariah was in fact also recognized with a nomination for "Producer of the year (non-classical)" (Grammys 1992) with her second album "Emotions" after
winning the "Best New Artist" award only one year earlier, all of which lead award-presenter Whoopi Goldberg to rightfully guess that Mariah was "growing up
fast" at the time (c.p. Whoopi's introductory speech for Mariah at the 1992 Grammys ceremony, after which Mariah brought the house down with a live rendition of "If It's Over")

to this day, only six women have received this extraordinary recognition:

"Six women have been nominated for Producer Of The Year (though, as yet, no woman has taken home the award). Janet Jackson was the
first woman to be nominated. Jackson, Jam and Lewis were cited as a team in 1989 — the year of her hit-laden album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814.In a similar fashion, Mariah Carey and Afanasieff were nominated as a team in 1991 — the year of her sophomore album, Emotions.
Paula Cole was the first woman to make the Producer Of The Year finals on her own. She was nominated in 1997, the year of her breakthrough album, This
Fire.In 1998, for the first (and, so far, only) time, the Producer Of The Year finals included two women: Sheryl Crow and Lauryn
Hill. Crow was nominated for her work on The Globe Sessions; Hill for her work on The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill and Aretha Franklin's "A Rose Is Still A
Rose." The sixth and most recent instance of a woman receiving a Producer Of The Year nomination came in 2003 when the writing/producing team the Matrix, which includes
Lauren Christy, were nominated. The team's work that year included tracks by Liz Phair and Hilary Duff."(https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/producer-year-category-turns-40)

out of these nominees, Mariah was the youngest at the time of her nomination (still 21 years old at the time)

Mariah was finally named Billboard's "Artist Of The Decade" for the 1990s after ten short years of a career as well as finally be the songwriter, producer and lead vocalist
of both Billboard's 1990s and the 2000s "Song Of The Decade" ("One Sweet Day" and "We Belong Together")

Only on this basis of true artistry, Mariah then could settle on her even more so impressive commercial legacy, which is best represented by her incredible domination of the US Billboard
charts like no other artist since her debut in 1990.

The following overview (a more detailed breakdown of the information of the previous

page) is dedicated to Mariah's outstanding performance on Billboard charts and

displays the performance of her albums and singles an all individual main and sub-charts of the the respective magazine: